A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
GEORGE HERBERTA dead Bee maketh no Hony.
More George Herbert Quotes
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Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
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The offender never pardons.
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Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]
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The wife is the key of the house.
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He that burnes most shines most.
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
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He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.
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Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
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He that staies does the businesse.
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
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Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
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The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings.
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